We’re looking for someone who can keep our books in order, and help develop the financial infrastructure that supports reddit. For the past few years, our accounting and finance were handled by our former parent company. Now, we’ll be doing it all in-house. We want to run a tight ship and be responsible and conscientious with our finances (and minerals!) . Are you someone who can help us do this?

We’re looking for someone who understands all manner of financial and accounting systems and processes. You should be familiar with how “big company accounting” works, because we still sometimes interface with our former parent company, but just as comfortable doing things differently for a tiny company. You should be comfortable with high level financial strategy as well as willing to take on tasks like data entry.

Your work will include but not be limited to the following:

Accounts Payable: You will be posting invoices and expense reimbursements, making check runs and managing vendors.

Accounts Receivable: You will be issuing invoices, making collections calls, working with the sales team and maintaining contracts.

Accounting: You will be handling bank reconciliations, journal postings, and will be maintaining the General Ledger.

Payroll: You will be processing payroll and maintaining employee information.

Finance Leadership: You will be working with banks and auditors.

Record-keeping: You will maintain files and manage data as necessary.

You must have a degree in accounting and have experience with accounts payable, accounts receivable and general ledger accounting. Experience in payroll will also be required. As an added bonus, it would be great if you had experience with administrating benefits, options and company records. There is a lot of work to go around.

The position is a full-time job in San Francisco’s fantastic, sunny South Park neighborhood. We offer great benefits and competitive compensation in both cash and equity.

To apply, send a cover letter and resume — along with, optionally, a pithy and/or humorous and/or poetic statement about why you are perfect for the role — to controller-job@reddit.com.

We would greatly prefer to hire from within the reddit community, so if you love reddit and might be a good fit, please let us know!

redditgifts Programmer:

Dear redditgifts enthusiast,

Join us in our quest to make people smile and bring happiness to an increasingly angry and cynical world! Here at redditgifts we started on this quest a little more than two years ago and we have already succeeded in creating record-setting Secret Santas, organizing donation drives, and massive meetup gatherings. We are only scratching the surface of what we can do and how many people we can reach but in order to get there, we need your help!

When you join us we will have all sorts of fun engineering work for you to do. We’ve got a lot of interesting work around the gift exchanges.

For example, can you figure out the most optimal way to match up redditors across the world so that everyone gets matched with someone they will be most likely to give an amazing gift to? Can you invent novel ways to increase participation? Have you ever done payment processing or built a storefront? We even have a new project that could really use your expertise and will be really fun for the reddit community. Your work will require knowledge and mastery of the full web stack. You should be able to set up servers, write (or learn) Python and django, design beautiful, interactive web apps using modern HTML, CSS and Javascript, and when required, you should be able to delve into the internals of Python. We need new ideas and you should have them! We know that is a lot to ask but we also know how skilled you are and we believe in you. Additionally, we hope you’ve been a redditor for a long time and maybe you’ve even done some redditgifting.

Now, on to where you will work… redditgifts will have an office in Salt Lake City, Utah, and we hope you will join us there. If you write back soon enough you’ll even get to help us find this office and pick the right furniture. It will be fun! If you’d rather work in San Francisco, that is also an option. Most of the reddit team works in a really cool office in SOMA and would be happy for you to join them there as well, but we would prefer that you join us in Salt Lake City.

We hope to hear from you very soon and we hope that reply with enough information about you that we can tell you really want to join us. What do we want exactly?

You must reply to this in letter form (to the email address provided below). If you can fit some humor into your letter, we would really like that. It’s important to laugh, especially while you work.

Whenever possible, participants who send a gift to a country other than their own are more likely to receive a gift from a country other than their own. Participants who indicate that they are willing to ship internationally typically wish to receive internationally, so amongst those who are willing to ship internationally, maximize the number of people who receive a gift from a country other than their own.

Whenever possible, participants should not receive a gift from the same person they send a gift to.

Every participant must be matched.

The matching process should runs efficiently, meaning the execution time is short.

Your program should take 1 parameter as input, a list (array) where each item is a list (array) that represents a participant and has these three elements:

unique id of participant (integer)

shipping country of participant (string)

willing to ship internationally (boolean)

Example: [[234, ‘US’, True], [235, ‘US’, False],]

Your program should return a list (array) where each element is a 2 item list (array) containing:

Unique id of participant giving the gift

Unique id of participant receiving the gift

Example: [[234, 235], [235, 234],]

Your solution should be representative of how you program. You should be able to explain the program and understand its strengths and weaknesses. You may write this program in any language you’d like to, but it needs to be executable (no pseudo code please).

For your reference, here is a spreadsheet containing numbers from Secret Santa 2011 of participants from each country and their shipping preferences. You can use this to generate a dataset that you use for testing.

Send your solution and anything else you think might help show us how rad you are to jobs@redditgifts.com! We like github links, we love reading code, we LOVE seeing examples of previous work, especially if you tell us what you did and why it’s a good (or bad) example. Please email us at jobs@redditgifts.com and we will get back to you!